Is Your Diet Helping You Lose Weight?
The way you diet can do wonders for your body-image and health in the
long run or it can forever ruin your hopes for looking gorgeous and
feeling great. Everybody is into dieting today, regardless of whether
they're doing it knowingly or not. We all believe that we should eat
more broccoli and a lot more raw fruits and vegetables and less fat and
so on.
And for the most part of our lives we do try to stay on the right side
of healthy, but it's not always easy. Add to that the fact that there
are so many conflicting stories on what's hot and what's not when it
comes to healthy foods and you can easily find yourself in a dieters'
hell.
So what can you do to be sure your diet is both helping you to lose weight and stay healthy in the long run?
The most important thing when it comes to diets is to use common sense.
Common sense wouldn't let you starve to death with plenty of food
around you and it would most likely make you feel you've had too much
when you give way to your eating cravings! So yes, common sense is your
best ally when it comes to healthy diet choices.
The next very important thing is to understand that your body needs
proteins, fats, sugars, fibers, vitamins and minerals at all meals if
it is to feel satisfied with what you've been eating. Ideally, every
time you eat, your plate should have some protein, a little fat and a
little fibrous mass to ensure that you feel full and satisfied.
This takes some planning and for some of us planning can be hard
because we are so much into the "mindlessly munching on pretzels"
habit. You have to admit it, it's a lot easier to reach out for a bag
of whatever junk food is available than to plan a balanced meal.
It also means that if you plan to replace potato chips with a fruit
snack, you won't feel good about it and it won't make you feel full. An
apple followed by, say, some plain yogurt, will do more to keep you
filled than two apples. Have a bit of everything at every meal!
Another thing we hear all the time is that raw food is better - as in
healthier - than cooked food. It follows that you have to eat as much
raw food as possible. But you are not told that eggplants and beans
sometimes harbor toxic compounds that can wreak havoc on your digestive
tract if you eat them raw. Many starch containing plants cannot be
eaten raw because our bodies do not process that particular type of
starch unless transformed by high temperature processing - cooking,
that is.
Other veggies, like carrots, contain fragile nutrients that can be
destroyed in a frying pan. But cooked carrots still contain tons of
great nutrients and vitamins. And no, there is no evidence that sushi
is any better for you than grilled salmon. What to do then? Eat a
mixture of raw and cooked fruits and veggies, and use common sense. If
it's normally eaten raw, go for it. If it's usually cooked into a
culinary delight, don't eat it raw.
Diet choices should be made according to your own body's needs and way
of life. It is really of no use to starve yourself or eat disgusting
foods just because others said it's healthy.
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